174 NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Norton exhibited a specimen of one of the Myxomycetes, 

 identified by Mr. Whitelegge as Stemonitis fusca, or ferruginea, 

 Ehrenb., found on the trunk of a tree at Springwood. 



Mr. Wilkinson exhibited a selection from the Gosford Collection 

 of Fossils, now amounting to about 400 specimens, comprising a 

 number of new and remarkable forms of Fishes, and he pointed 

 out the importance of the evidence which is now accumulating in 

 favour of the view that the Hawkesbury formation is of Triassic 



age. 



Dr. Ramsay exhibited (1.) An Egg of the Top-knot Pigeon 

 Lopholaimios antarcticus, (Shaw), taken from the oviduct by Mr. 

 McLennan. The egg is nearly perfectly oval, being only slightly 

 pointed at the thin end, white, and without any gloss ; length 

 l'85xl'25 inches; (2.) Some very old diorite Stone Hatchets 

 used by the Aborigines of the Lachlan district, where they were 

 obtained by Mr. K. H, Bennett of Mossgiel ; (3.) Flint-fiakes used 

 by the Aborigines of Tasmania; (4.) Slabs of Shale with Fossil 

 Ferns (Bhacopteris, <&c.), from near Stroud, N.S.W. 



Mr. Palmer exhibited six silk egg-bags made by the same spider 

 (species uncertain) at different times, and attached to a branch. 



Mr. Masters exhibited a living specimen of one of the " Sleeping 

 Lizards " Cyclodus nigro-luteus, Q. and G., sent by Mr. J. D. Cox 

 from Mt. Wilson — -a species which is rare so far north, though 

 common in Victoria and Tasmania. 



Mr. Steel exhibited a specimen of Bomhyx from Fiji, quite 

 overgrown by a fungus, sj^ringing from all parts of the body. 



Mr. Ogilby exhibited a living example of a rare Toad, Nota- 

 den Bennettii, Gunth., recently forwarded from Cobar to the 

 Australian Museum. Also an example of the rare snake Brachyu- 

 rophis australis, Krefft, hitherto only recorded from the Clarence 

 and Burdekin Rivers. The locality of the present specimen is 

 -unknown. 



